How to Use crisis in a Sentence

crisis

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  • She was dealing with a family crisis at the time.
  • A year ago, both companies were in crisis.
  • In times of national crisis, we need strong leaders we can trust.
  • Most people blame the government for the country's worsening economic crisis.
  • So how can parents, teachers and friends help girls through this crisis?
    — Elizabeth Englander, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • What hunger in the first act does a second act satisfy; what crisis is resolved?
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Election anxiety could be building, but crisis lines and other tools are available to listen and help out on Election Day and beyond.
    — The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Lawmakers are demanding answers one week after a Chinese spy balloon sparked this diplomatic crisis.
    — NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Crypto imploded in 2022, as investors lost faith in digital assets and the industry was plagued with crisis.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • These days, Hall’s vision is facing its biggest existential crisis yet: economic survival.
    — Dallas News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • With some shows which were once genre-defining suddenly stuck in an authenticity crisis, Bravo should remember that viewer trust is fragile.
    — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The hand belongs to Palmer (Brian Dietzen), who was dispatched to bring Knight in to deal with this international crisis.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Another factor has been dwindling state revenue amid falling oil prices and dropping demand for Alaska crude, leaving the state in an ongoing budget crisis with more needs than state revenue can meet.
    — Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • These supplies are dwindling as Britain already faces record inflation and a cost of living crisis that is hiking food prices, as the war in Ukraine drives up energy prices around Europe.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Arizona and the Phoenix metro area are in the midst of a homeless crisis.
    — Alexis Waiss, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Now the end of the crisis is dragging the drugmaker down.
    — Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Would Daryl be okay, up there on his own with this crisis?
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Still, this is a national crisis, and more needs to be done.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The effort, a response to the 2008 global financial crisis, has been in the works for more than a decade.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Every month since — and four of the five months before — the crisis only worsened.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Nursing homes are not safe amid the world's climate crisis.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The same cannot be said of 988, the national mental health crisis hotline.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And time is short to get the climate crisis under control.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The pair crossed paths when a crisis hit many neighborhoods in West Dallas in 2016.
    — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
  • But in the District, police are the ones who get the call when someone is having a mental health crisis.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a looming crisis in the crushing cost of elder care and the crippling effects of low wages.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The country is already in the midst of an economic crisis.
    — Bouazza Ben Bouazza and Mehdi El Arem, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2023
  • And this was spring of 2006 and the events that caused the global financial crisis were pretty well under way.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
  • City and state taxpayer funds to deal with the crisis have totaled nearly $700 million in the past year.
    — Andrew Hensel | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Gold prices are up 8.2% this year, powered by a banking crisis and hopes that the Fed is near the end of its rate-increase cycle.
    — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 26 July 2023

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